ONE HUNDRED EDUCATORS FROM 13 SOUTHERN STATES MET FOR A 3-DAY CONFERENCE IN WHICH POSSIBLE DIRECTIONS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION WERE EXPLORED WITH SPECIFIC EMPHASIS ON STATE-FUNDED PRESCHOOL EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD. REPORTS WERE GIVEN ON THE FOLLOWING ONGOING PROJECTS--(1) DEMONSTRATION AND RESEARCH CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION…

Some of the dimensions of the relative financial contribution of the cooperating parties in manpower institutional training as established under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 were explored. This analysis will provide some perspective to those who must finally decide the question of relative financial contribution, or provide…

This report describes the program for financing public schools in Florida. The intent is to supply general information for those having a casual interest in state funding of schools and more detailed descriptions for the school administrator or the student of school finance. The first section of the report describes key features of the Florida…

The nineteenth annual edition of the report provides a record of state tax appropriations for the 1977-78 fiscal year. Data are arrayed in charts by state, with some analysis provided. Figures are given for operating expense appropriations of individual institutions, and often for individual programs of the institutions. A chart showing two- and…

This position paper argues that public and private policies in Minnesota are not responsive to the large scale entry of women into the labor force and proposes a series of basic long-range strategies and specific child day care policies aimed at allieviating the hardships and inequities existing for working women and their families. It is…

This document is directed toward those undergraduate colleges and universities in West Virginia currently accredited by the Board of Regents, through which a majority of the total student aid dollars directed to students in West Virginia continues to be channeled. Colleges included in the document have been called upon to furnish statistics…

This document is a collection of data summarizing state support for higher education. The figures show a wide variation among the states and an even wider variance among institutions. While it is impossible to eliminate all inconsistencies and accomplish absolute comparability among states and among insitutions, some uniformity is achieved by…

This book, written for the nonspecialist, concentrates on three issues that are likely to have major impact on the future of public elementary and secondary education. The first issue is the improvement of family choice in the selection of educational services. The issue here is essentially one of the structure of the financing of education. The…

Eight matters relative to the Illinois general purpose educational grant-in-aid that might be subjected to further research and development are discussed. The eight matters are (1) the use of a notational system based on the concept of a guaranteed expenditure for each cent of tax effort, (2) the possibility of adding a curvature to the present…

This paper examines the current system of capital finance for education in New Jersey in light of existing disparities in educational facilities throughout the state and the need to equalize educational quality in response to the New Jersey Supreme Court's mandate in Robinson v. Cahill. Separate sections of the report describe and critique New…

This document examines the position of the Peralta Community College District as defined by the Budget Division-240 (B.D.-240), a statistical projection prepared annually by the California Department of Finance which measures the current and future student load on California community college districts. This load is used as an index of the demand…

School finance reform, in the opinion of many of those concerned, implies a shift away from the local property tax as the main source of revenue for the public schools. The inequities associated with property tax administration and the uneven distribution of property tax wealth within any given state have led to increasing concern about the wisdom…

This report reviews the status of higher education student financial aid in Maryland in relation to equal educational opportunity, increasing dynamics of the marketplace, social necessity, general college and attendance data, general trends in the growth of higher education, a student's ability to pay, federally sponsored student aid programs, the…

The first in a series of three legislative progress reports presents an overview of approximately 75 major 1974-75 state bills concerning the education of exceptional children. Bills are organized into the following categories: census/registry/reporting; centers, commissions and offices for special education services; certification of professional…

The second in a series of three legislative progress reports presents an overview of approximately 100 major state bills introduced during 1975 that affect the education of exceptional children. Bills are organized into the following categories: centers, commissions and offices for special education services; certification of professional…